Xi Calls for Ramping Up Anti-Corruption Efforts, No Mercy for Graft
• Xi tells corruption fighters to show "no mercy" in ongoing "severe and complex" anti-corruption campaign • Focus should be on high-risk areas like finance, state-owned businesses, energy, pharmaceuticals, infrastructure • Calls for "persistent purification" of political ecosystem and heavier punishments as deterrent • Held meeting with top officials from military, legislature, courts to set agenda for 11th year of signature initiative • Comes after record number of 45 senior official investigations launched last year in anti-graft push